Java Script Developer at Gap Recruitment Services Limited

Key roles and responsibilities

• Be part of a stand-alone engineering team working closely with other engineers and product managers in rolling out enhancement and new features
• Develop new user-facing features
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Work with real world problems faced in scaling the business/enhancement and work with a team in implementing and rolling them out SME on the product/application architecture including excellent understanding as to how application consumers upstream services, etc., with an ability to debug the services
• Evaluate and identify the opportunity to enhance engineering productivity through innovation and also ensure that right tools and framework are being used by engineers’ teams
• Lead the quality effort of software solutions for projects of sizable scope and impact

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong understanding of JavaScript, its quirks and workaround
• Basic understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates and AJAX
• Proficient understanding of cross browser compatibility issues and ways to work around such issues
• Familiarity with JavaScript module loaders such as Require js and AMD
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git/ Mercurial/ SVN)
• Good understanding of browser rendering behavior and performance.
• Creating mocks/fakes for testing the feature, creating frameworks for carrying out integration across different modules